Valerie Anderson

Played by Rose Rollins

Character Biography

VALERIE ANDERSON is Alice's partner at the PI firm and her best friend. Valerie is a former cop who – with Alice – built her own private investigation and private security business from the ground up. Val runs the business side of AVI – dealing with the cops, the Feds, the clients – leaving Alice free to be in the field as AVI's lead investigator.

Rose Rollins is an accomplished actress who has garnered attention on both the big and small screens.

Rollins will next star in ABC’s The Catch, opposite Mireille Enos. The series centers on a gutsy female private investigator, who hunts down and exposes criminals for a living, but when her own fiancé cons her out of millions and disappears, she goes on a private mission for payback. Executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Allan Heinberg and Julie Anne Robinson, the show will premiere on March 24.

She most recently guest starred in an eight-episode arc on Amazon Studios crime drama Bosch and as a series regular in the TNT pilot Guilt By Association.

Rollins has built her body of work with numerous roles on prominent television series, including the NBC crime drama Chase; the critically acclaimed Showtime series The L Word; NBC’s The West Wing, co-starring Allison Janney, and Southland; ABC’s In Justice. opposite Kyle MacLachlan; The CW’s Nikita; and CBS’s NCIS and CSI: NY, among many others.

On the big screen, the actress’ voice can be heard as the White House press secretary in the 2015 Adam Sandler/Kevin James action sci-fi comedy, Pixels. Additional film credits include Mission: Impossible III, directed by J.J. Abrams; Undisputed, opposite Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes; the romantic comedy Something New; and 13 Moons, starring Steve Buscemi and Jennifer Beals.